Best Cartoonist (Writer and Artist)

• Caroline Cash
• Scott Chantler
• Anders Nilsen
• Ben Passmore
• Tiffany Petitt
• Mimi Pond
• Craig Thompson
• Paige Walshe
• Ben Wickey

Best Writer

• Deniz Camp
• Joseph Schmalke
• James Tynion IV
• Robert Venditti
• Mark Waid

Best Artist or Penciller/Inker Team

• Becky Cloonan
• Werther Dell’Edera
• Jay Fosgitt
• Javier Rodriguez
• Liam Sharp
• Hayden Sherman
• Stefan Tosheff

Best Letterer

• Taylor Esposito
• Rob Leigh
• Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
• Troy Peteri
• Nate Piekos
• Ben Wickey

Best Colorist

• Jordie Bellaire
• John Kalisz
• Javier Rodriguez
• Alejandro Sanchez
• Stefano Simeone
• Dave Stewart

Best Cover Artist

• Gabriele Dell’Otto
• Colm Griffin
• Tula Lotay
• Daniel Parent
• Javier Rodriguez
• Riley Rossmo

Best Series

• Absolute Batman, DC Comics
• Absolute Martian Manhunter, DC Comics
• Coexistence, self-published
• FML, Dark Horse Comics
• Granite State Punk, Orange Cone Productions
• Murder Podcast, Ignition Press

Best Short Story

• Chest Face, self-published
• “Pied Piper” in Cthulhu Invades Fairy Tales, Orange Cone Productions
• “The Knife and Gun Club” in Detective Comics #1100, DC Comics
• The Fire Breathing Duckling, Astra Books for Young Readers
• “Red Snapper in the Rea” in Milk White Steed, Drawn & Quarterly
• Model Five Murder, Silver Sprocket

Best Original Graphic Novel

• Black Arms To Hold You Up, Pantheon Books
• The Corus Wave, Avery Hill Publishing
• David Dastmalchian’s Through, Z2 Comics
• Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me, Drawn & Quarterly
• Drome, Macmillan – First Second and 23rd Street
• The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief, Fantagraphics
• Gamemasters: The Comic Book History of Roleplaying Games, Clover Press
• Herobear and the Kid Vol. 1 – The Inheritance, Papercutz

Best Kids Comic or Graphic Novel – Ages 11 and Under

• Brume Vol. 1, Astra Books for Young Readers
• The Fire Breathing Duckling, Astra Books for Young Readers,
• The Lost Sunday, Oni Press
• Magda, Intergalactic Chef: The Big Tournament, Lerner Publishing Group
• Max, A Little Axolotl, Scholastics Inc.
• The Mighty Bite #3: Hog Rocket Ruckus, ABRAMS
• The Patchwork Girl of Oz Volume 1, Image Comics
• Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse and the Amazing Lost Ocean, Fantagraphics

Best Kids Comic or Graphic Novel – Ages 12 and Up

• Angelica and the Bear Prince, Penguin Random House/Random House Children’s Books
• Dracula’s Brunch Club, Oni Press
• Hello Sunshine, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Hunger’s Bite, Union Square & Co.
• Raised by Ghosts, Fantagraphics
• Wynd Book Four: The Power of the Blood, BOOM! Studios

Best Anthology

• Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown, Dark Horse Comics
• Flash Gordon Adventures Vol. 2, Papercutz
• Jim Henson Presents, BOOM! Studios
• Knapsack Magazine Volume 2: Butter, Lucky Pocket Press
• unSEEN/unHEARD: Disability & Neurodivergence Comic Anthology, self-published
• Young Men in Love: New Romance, A Wave Blue World

Best Humor Comic

• The Blues Brothers – The Escape of Joliet Jake, Z2 Comics
• Everything Sucks: Kings of Nothing, Silver Sprocket
• The Goon: Them That Don’t Stay Dead, Albatross Funnybooks/Dark Horse Comics
• How to Survive an Affair, self-published
• Physics for Cats, Drawn & Quarterly

Best Webcomic

• Battle Mage Farmer, Tapas Entertainment Inc.
• Before We Sail, Aces Weekly
• Daughter of a Thousand Faces. Tapas Entertainment Inc.
• The Mafia Nanny, WEBTOON Entertainment
• Marionetta, WEBTOON Entertainment
• Neon Pantheon, neonpantheoncomic.com

Best Humor Webcomic

• The Bathroom Ghost, WEBTOON Entertainment
• Evil Inc., evil-inc.com
• Harley Quinn in Paradise, DC Comics / DC Go!
• I Am The Chief, iamthechiefcat.com
• My Little Warlord, DC Comics / DC Go!
• Nothing Butt Nightwing, DC Comics / DC Go!
• Taste of Justice, DC Comics / DC Go!

Best Non-fiction Comic Work

• Fela: Music is the Weapon, Amistad
• Ginseng Roots, Pantheon Books
• Love Letters Every Day, Background Noise
• Lucas Wars, Macmillan – First Second and 23rd Street
• Muybridge, Drawn & Quarterly
• Surrounded: America’s First School for Black Girls, 1832, Ablaze Publishing/NBM Graphic Novels

Best Comics-Related Publication

• Becoming Frazetta – The Early Years of a Fantasy Art Master, Thrilling Nostalgia Comics
• COMICS! The Magazine #0, Prana Publishers
• Facing Feelings: Inside the World of Raina Telgemeier, Scholastic Inc.
• Graphic Samurai: The Art of Denys Cowan, Gizmoe Press
• Making Your First Comic, self-published
• Messiahs, Meshugganahs, Misanthropes, and Mysteries, Fantagraphics

Best Presentation in Design

• Beasts of the Four Nations: Creatures From Avatar: The Last Airbender, Dark Horse Comics
• Becoming Frazetta – The Early Years of a Fantasy Art Master, Thrilling Nostalgia Comics
• Cry Wolf Girl, Silver Sprocket
• Ginseng Roots, Pantheon Books
• The Hero Trade: Hero for Sale TPB, Bad Idea
• Land of Mirrors, Drawn & Quarterly
• Lone Wolf and Cub Deluxe Edition Volume 1, Dark Horse Comics
• The Smurfs Archives Vol. 1, Papercutz
• Tongues, Vol. 1, Pantheon Books